LancasterSteve

I hope the kid makes the final roster

Because of good friends like You and so many other really good, good people; some of whom I've met and many others like yourself that I hope to someday meet. Like You I also miss the "posters" of years past who for what-ever reason choose not to or cannot share their their thoughts with us anymore. I sometimes wonder how ______ is doing and have sent PM's with never recieving a reply. So sad in a way and leaves one with an empty feeling, a void if you will in the fabric of our lives.

Every highschool teenaged boys dream and they say this BS "We’re going to do whatever it takes to help the young man get through it.” Ya friggen freaks tell the kid sex is bad and scar him for life

Happy Birthday John. I appreciate your writing and opinion

Pro Football Wekly in their draft guide said he has had 2 major injuries; broken bone at the head of his fibula in left leg and torn ACL in Corp's right leg. Needs to bulk up to survive a pounding and get physically stronger with his arm strength. Suited for a backup role in a dink & dunk West Coast offense. Average arm strength. Needs maximun protection in the pocket to be effective as escapability is just adequate. Supposedly is a very good touch passer with a quick short-armed release who played in a pro style offense. Confident and was team captain. Could be an eventual PS player but view this signing as merely a QB to take snaps in training camp. All teams bring in "camp fodder" to run the scout teams and once in a blue moon a diamond in the rough is discovered. We can only hope this is the case with Aaron Corp.

ESPN is a joke, notice how they always go to break when the Bills are picking or have other BS about other teams when the Bills are about to pick. Same every year so I watch the NFL Network. DVR'd ESPN but axed the whole BS after I checked out what little Bills talk there was on the Gilmore pick.

Hmmm....whats that QB's name in New Orleans ?? Drew Brees...thats it and think he's shorter than 5'11" You know I think he is pretty darn good. So maybe you have a diamond in the rough with Wilson.....Then a while back was this kid named Doug Flutie who I had the chance to talk with on more that a few ocassions. We were talking eye to eye and IM just a shade over 5'8". He was pretty darn good also. Then there was this QB that won a couple of championships for the Bills. He wasn't 6' even though the programs said so. He was at our house when he was thinking about getting into politics. Same height as my 5'10' father. His name was Jack Kemp. Today there is no getting around a players true measurables. In the 50's 60's into the seventies it was common practice to release as much dis-information as needed like hieght, weight and speed (can't remember the year the league switched from the 50 yard dash to the 40; could be 76-77. I do remember one of the college coaches asking me what my 50 time was in HS. What counts is guts, arm strength (think quick out not down field and football moxie...that is football brains. All the great QB's have these "football brians" with built in sack clocks as a bonus. You can throw out the window all the ideal this or that as long as the kid can win. Heart to get up after getting clobbered and brains so it doesn't happen often.

Well many teams valued his advice FWIW. When Joel Bushbaum passed away all the teams top brass attended. This was no off the wall draft guru. He knew his talent especially in later rounds and was very well respected in the NFL. I first heard of Bushbaum thru John Murphy back when he started out on WBEN raidio. Well John's and my path happened to cross a few times and one time I asked John about who is this Joel Bushbaum and John Murphy clued me in. At first there was newsletters and then ProFootballWeekly hired him and put out a draft guide later. This was all before the Internet as we know it today. Heck who had a computer in 85 when I got my first Ourlads Guide ? BTW their first guide was in 83 and would sure like to have that one ! And Kiper took the draft mainsteam in 84 on ESPN but before that you could call him at home. Draft info all seemed to blossom at once from multiple sources which was like bread from heaven for us draftniks !! It wasn't easy getting info on players and maybe thats why I appreciate all the info thats at anyones firgertips today. These are the people who got this whole draft ball rolling so maybe I've said a prayer for Joel Bushbaum from time to time.

All good points, thanks. I think all the angst over the LT position (me included) have their roots in the Bills loosing Will Wilfork to Indy years ago. Since then the Bills have been serviceable at best at the LT position.

I take what any of them say with a grain of salt as the smoke will ony get thicker te closer we get to draft day. The thing that bugs me about Martin is his feet. A LT has to have good feet and see Martin at RT and not LT. That what happened when Tom Donahoe drafted Mike Williams. Donahoe and a few others went to Texas to work out Williams and came away convinced that he could make the switch to the left side. Well as we all know in the end he couldn't even cut it at RT and it was because he just didn't have the feet. Buddy won't make the same mistake.

Hey your take on it falling this way is as valid as anyone elses. Those are all very good players except that QB's like Tannehill are always pushed higher that the tape warrents but thats the nature of the NFL Draft beast.

One thing is certain, it would cause consternation and debate for a long time. I remember Buddy Nix telling a group of us at the draft lunchon last year after all the speeches and ra-ra stuff was over that this team needs playmakers and he basically stated much the same thing this year if I remember correctly. Then you add in his comments that more depth for tackle willl be added in the draft. Of course Nix could do a 90 in his thinking and grab Kalil. Do I think any of this is a realistic senerio ? of course not but like I said before its Silly Season and only takes one GM to have brain fart to blow the whole thing up.

No gag intended but "serious" sounds like such a downer. This is after all what many including me refer to as "The Silly Season" GM's scouts, draft plundits say this or that and the whole world bounces and the Stadium Wall goes into meltdown. Just a sidebar Buddy Nix is just as good at muddying the waters as the best of them. As he told me once "I like to stretch the truth at times" with his broad smile beaming.

If this were to happen as Buddy Nix stated it would be a "no brainer" http://nflfilms.nfl.com/2012/04/23/cosell-talks-mock-draft/ IMHO it would be Blackmon and I have been beating the drum for franchise LT for ages, much like my friend Bill in NYC Who would You draft??? Oh and Greg Cosell works for NFL films and is well respected in the league

Yep I miss the old format also my friend. Really looking forward to seeing You again. The fieldhouse is OK I guess but much preferred Dave n Busters for the Draft Party. Heck even the Clubs at RWS were better IMHO but we gotta roll with what the Bills provide. Another thing the Bills stopped doing is having some scouts at the draft party to talk with. Going to ask Nix about that when I see him again

Thanks made my other post before I saw yours

Dat true !!! Switched to Direct TV 6 years ago and will never ever go back to cable...EVER !!! Cable here in Lancaster was always going out. Customer service was always a joke out of downtown Buffalo....dishonest and rude and for GOD's sake get some employees that can speak in intelligible English. Just the opposite with Direct TV, especially customer service which has always been top notch. Good deal on the NFL package but have a question. When they mention mobile devices, is that just limited to phones or would that include laptops or ipads ? We will be in Puerto Rico for part of the season and local TV never broadcasts any of the weekly games; let alone the Bills so I have to come up with a way to get my Bills fix. Where we will be staying there is no Direct TV or ugh cable (so no high-speed internet, only dialup internet)So I will have to go wireless thru AT&T I guess unless anyone can give insight on another internet option. Thanks

I think you are wrong. Can't be a Mars bar. I haven't seen one of those for sale in years Now I can see that a box of Good n Plenty could be mistaken for a gun

Just talked to Mark. He's doing OK

From what I was told last December; better than half of Club seats are up for renewal. Been in contact with all who sat around us and not one is renewing their club seats.....sad but it is what it is after 10 years of no playoffs. No matter how much of a splash the Bills make in free agency many people have just given up on the Bills.

No it was Penthouse and the name of her forum was "The Happy Hooker" Xaviera Hollander is 68 and living in Amsterdam

While I like the idea, no way in Hades does Littmann let Nix to spend the bucks to sign Williams and he calls the financial shots now. The only race the Bills will be in, is the race to spend the least on player salaries in the entire NFL.

http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/bills-nfl/article693970.ece Just give it to a Toronto station, the Bills will be there soon enough.

Ah to be young and dream big. Unfortunately Nix is old and values every draft pick more than gold. No way he even gives up one nuget to move up in the first round. Point 2. Forget QB. If it isn't LT the pick will be defense. LB, DE DT CB...oh did I say LB